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>I wonder if using two gas cylinders of 60# each might double the chances
that your emergency gear-down extension would fail?<

The primary failure mode of the gas spring is "leak down" of the pressure.
I have never heard of one failing any other way.  If you crank in all the
statistical data into the equations, the probability of failure would
definitely not be doubled.